Malaria case management remains a vital component of the malaria control
strategies. This entails early diagnosis and prompt treatment with effective antimalarial
medicines. The WHO Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which were first published in
2006, provide global, evidence-based recommendations on the case management of
malaria, targeted mainly at policy-makers at country level, providing a framework for the development of specific and more detailed national treatment protocols that take
into account local antimalarial drug resistance patterns and health service capacity
in the country. This second edition of the guidelines revisits the recommendations
based on updated evidence. The same presentation format from the first edition has been
mainly kept based on feedback from the end-users...